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Subject: Cider Digest #613, 18 September 1996
From: cider-request@talisman.com
Cider Digest #613 18 September 1996
Forum for Discussion of Cider Issues
Dick Dunn, Digest Janitor
Contents:
digest returns... (Cider Digest)
Hydraulic Cider Press (Kathy Hutchins)
Sweet Cider (TERESA M PAESCHKE)
Cider is clear bottles (Brian Black)
(Brian Black)
articles on cider growing and making (Andrew LEA)
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Subject: digest returns...
From: cider@raven.talisman.com (Cider Digest)
Date: 18 Sep 96 07:51:04 MDT (Wed)
I thought I'd had the digest set to send an issue automatically while I was
gone. Seems I set things up but didn't activate them. Sorry for the delay
since the last digest.
There is some halfway-plausible excuse--I was off in England drinking...er,
tasting...cider, plus visiting the Cider and Perry Festival at Brogdale,
about which I hope to write here soon.
We now return you to your irregularly scheduled broadcast...
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Cider Digest cider-request@talisman.com
Dick Dunn, Digest Janitor Boulder County, Colorado USA
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Subject: Hydraulic Cider Press
From: Kathy Hutchins <KHUTCHINS@VAX1.IUPUI.EDU>
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 9:17:52 -0500 (EST)
Michael Gerholdt <gerholdt@ait.fredonia.edu> writes:
> I have a vertical hydraulic log splitter that sits behind a tractor.
> Seems like it would be very easy to develop a press that uses this for
> pressure. Anyone done anything of the sort or have plans for such a thing?
I have no idea, and I'm not clever about this sort of thing,
but I have a horizontal log splitter that runs off
the hydraulics on my tractor (an ancient but faithful Ford
801), and would love to see any information you get about using
such a thing to power a cider press.
Kathy Hutchins
khutchins@vax1.iupui.edu
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Subject: Sweet Cider
From: paeschke@ix.netcom.com (TERESA M PAESCHKE)
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 1996 13:43:26 -0700
Hi All
Pickleman asked about an herb called Stivia for possible use in
sweetening cider. Stevia rebaudiana is a native of Paraguay.
Stevioside is found in the leaves and stems of this plant and is 300x
as sweet as cane sugar according to the Merck Index. It has been used
as a non-nutrative sweetener in Japan, South Korea and Brazil for years
but has not been approved for use in the US. Use of the herb is,I
believe, not regulated as the pure substance seems to be here in the
States. The Merck makes mention of B linkages so I can assume that it
is not fermentable. I've never tried the herb or the active stuff
myself but it seems like a good possible candidate from here.
Coincidentally, I heard an NPR broadcast with Scott Simon a few weeks
ago concerning this very critter.
Cheers!
--Steve
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Subject: Cider is clear bottles
From: Brian Black <b.black@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 11:41:55 +0000
Has there been any evidence of clear bottles harming cider? I understand
that Seven Sisters uses/has used, and I am looking for technical info on
this. Any ideas?
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Subject:
From: Brian Black <b.black@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 20:45:32 +0000
Whoops, one more thing. From whom did you get that info - you mentioned an
ag station in England, I believe. Tell me more if you would, this is
interesting.
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Subject: articles on cider growing and making
From: Andrew LEA <101750.3071@compuserve.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 02:48:58 -0400
I'm a biochemist and hobby cider maker in the south of England. Some years
ago I wrote a series of six articles on small-scale cidermaking for a UK
hobby magazine called Home Farm. Since this didn't have a very wide
circulation, and the copyright in the articles is mine, I've put them on
the Net. You can get at them via my home page at
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/andrew_lea
Hope some people out there might find them useful!
Andrew Lea
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